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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Sammy Gecsoyler

Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

The dumped waste near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
This waste was described as ‘an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight’. Photograph: Friends of the Thames/PA

Fly-tippers have dumped a “mountain of illegal waste” in Oxfordshire so large that removing it could cost more than the local council’s annual budget, the area’s MP has said.

Hundreds of tonnes of waste, stacked 10 metres high, appeared in a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. One charity called the huge dump of rubbish “an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight”.

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